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2015-05-16 13:20 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>: |
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> On Sat, 16 May 2015 13:10:21 +0300, gevisz wrote: |
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>> > I'm afraid I cannot agree with you on this. On older PCs I would |
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>> > rather did not have to install abi_x86_32 for packages that I don't |
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>> > need to. The granular approach suits me better and also aligns |
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>> > better with the light-footed Gentoo approach. |
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>> With this "light-footed approach" I had about two full-screen rubbish |
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>> in my /etc/portage/make.conf file and kept adding on almost every |
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>> update. |
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> Unless your screen is IMAX-sized, two screens of text is a lot more |
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> lightfooted than add extra libraries to nearly 200 packages - and most |
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> of that text is comments anyway. |
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> As Mick says, you get to choose, but the per-package approach is |
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> definitely lighter on the system. Enabling it globally may be less work |
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> though. I say "may" because when I tried that it introduced some |
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> breakages, |
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If enabling abi_x86_32 globally may introduce breakages, then |
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the multilib profile is even more broken than I ever thought. :-( |
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> so I went for the per-package approach. |
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> -- |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> Things are more like they are today than they ever have been before. |
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Yes, I do remember installing Linux on a brand-new laptop in 2003. |
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I had to compile a new kernel only to get the command prompt. |
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And, to get a graphic interface, I had to wait for a new release |
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of the distribution in 2004. :( |
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